Floral and Lace

Today, I made a two more Valentine's Day cards.  The first, I used my Cricut Expression 2 and the Elegant Cake Art Cartridge.  I used some shimmery red paper from DCWV as the background and layered it with the white lace paper that I recently found on sale at Ollie's.  I cut a red doily from the Elegant Cake Art cartridge and embossed it with my Cuttlebug. I also cut a lacy heart from the same cartridge and embossed it as well!  I layered both on top of a small, white doily and embellished them with some pearls.  I added a red ribbon and strand of shiny beads.  I finished the card off with a wonderful, red bow.  I think the scallped edge of the white paper looks great on this card!   The second card was rather simple.  While cleaning out my stash, I came across these romantic looking die-cuts from DCWV.  I used paper from Colorbok and My Minds Eye.  I used my Martha Stewart doily punch around the edges. I embellished with some pearls and a shimmery bow.  I think this simple card looks just beautiful, perfect for Valentine's Day!!  Have a great week!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Patty

Birthday Card and Cake!!

I got a couple of great new Cricut cartridges from Ebay this week and couldn't wait to try them out.  The card is made using the Cricut Imagine Yummy Cartridge.  The background paper for the card is from the Wild Asparagus Collection from My Mind's Eye.  I used the sentiment, stacked cake, and border from the Yummy cartridge.  I added a cake embellishment from my scrapbook stash and a small sheer bow.  I glitzed up the edges of the sentiment using Stickles.   My second creation is a simple cake-shaped goody box.  I just love all the projects from the Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge.  I decided to make this simple cake box and fill it up with sweets.  The project took all of ten minutes to cut and put together.  I used Cricut Craft Room and my E2 for this project.  The paper is from the Wild Asparagus Collection as well.  I frosted the edges of the cake with some Liquid Pearls and used some Stickles for a little glitz.  I topped my cake with whipped cream pom poms and a glitzy matching cherry!! I look forward to trying more projects from this cartridge.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!
Patty

Mother's Day Cards with Wild Mountain Ivy and Dogwood Blossoms



I've incorporated some of my recent photographs into cards again.  My mother just loves what she calls "mountain ivy".  She is quick to correct me that it's not "laurel" it's "ivy".  Mountain laurel blooms later in May she is quick to explain and grows on a much taller, woody bush.  The road leading to my little cabin is just loaded with mountain ivy, so I snapped some shots and included one in a card for my mom.  I also created an additional card for a friend with a recently taken photograph of mountain dogwood blossoms. 

The wild mountain ivy card uses distressed maroon background paper from the Wild Asparagus collection by My Mind's Eye.  I also used a frame from the Cricut Spring Holiday Cards cartridge, cut at six inches, using forest trees paper from the atd Great Outdoors Scrapbook Kit.  I used olive green cardstock to cut out the word "Mom" using my Cricut Mother's Day 2010 cartridge.  I highlighted the word with some pink glitter glue found in that wonderful dollar bin at Michael's. I had a little scrap of shear, maroon ribbon that I thought matched this card perfectly.  I think mom will really like this card.

The second card uses a light pink cardstock as the background and includes an overlay from K&Company, from the Susan Winget collection.  I just love these overlays.  They come with pre-punched borders and contain such beautiful nature-themed designs.  I adhered my picture with pale pink brads and added a nice brown bow.  I, again, cut the word "Mom" from my Cricut Mother's Day 2010 cartridge using a brown shadow and pink overlay.  I just love how the birds and nests in the background accent the photograph of the dogwood blossoms.

Hope you have a great week and a very Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!
Thanks for viewing!
Patty

A Morning of Making Cardstock Flowers with Mom...plus a Mother's Day Card...without Mom!!

This morning I showed my mom how to make cardstock flowers.  We used the Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge and paper from Me & My Big Ideas Specialty Cardstock and Pressed Petals Tropical Life cardstock pack.  The flowers were cut ranging in size from 3-5 inches and glued together using a hot glue gun.  We then added floral wire stems.  I plan to make more of these to decorate for Memorial Day at the cemetery were my grandparents are buried....as it is tradition in the south to decorate the cemetery on what we call "Decoration Day".  I have a link on an earlier blog (see archive: February) to a YouTube video that demonstrates how to make these flowers. 

This weekend, I also created a Mother's Day card.  I found these nice, little, chipboard embellishments appropriate for Mother's Day (they came from a seasonal chipboard collection that can be found at Hobby Lobby).  I used layered red cardstock with print cardstock from the Wild Asparagus pad from My Mind's Eye.  I used a scrap of brown ribbon from a box of chocolates I had received as a recent gift and I also glitzed up the card with some red sequins.  I used the Cricut Spring Holiday Cards cartridge to cut the background for the card (cut at 6 inches) and I also made small 2 inch and 2.5 inch backgrounds and layered them for my "Wishing You A Very" embellishments.  I finished the card off with some matching brown, metal brads.....Hope you like the card and the flowers.....now I am off to eat lunch with mom.